Re: Normalization

Thursday, July 29, 2004, 11:32:22 AM, Paul Baumgartel (treegarden_at_yahoo.com) wrote:
PB> Today, I always introduce redundancy into the model whenever it can
PB> eliminate an SQL join, but not always.

"whenever" but "not always" is kind of a contradiction in
itself.

I recall one performance problem, involving a query to
lookup records, that I solved by using a trigger to store a
copy of a column into another table, thus eliminating the
one join that was in a query. In that one case though, you
could easily have argued that the underlying design was
flawed, and that the two tables, which were one-to-one,
should have been one table. Or at least, the frequently
queried columns should all have been together in the same
table.

Please don't misconstrue me here. I'm not a fan of
denormalization. In one instance though, many years ago, I
did use the technique to make some users very, very happy.

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